With kind permission of James Baker, Biological Science Lab, Plant Mycotoxin Research USDA-ARS, WRRC, 800 Buchanan St. Albany, CA 94710-1100, USA Copyright Fungal Research Trust
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Sclerotial ( A left) and non-sclerotial (B right) A. lanosus strains produce bright yellow, floccose mycelia. Sclerotial strains produce small numbers of large, fused sclerotial bodies in discrete pockets hidden within the mycelium.
(C) Conidiophores of all the California A. lanosus isolates examined were branched (arrow, left panel), consistent with the species description by Kamal and Bhargava.
Mr RM is 80 and an ex-coal miner.He developed pneumoconiosis from exposure to coal dust. He also developed rheumatoid arthritis and the combination of this disease and pneumoconiosis is called Caplan’s syndrome.
His chest Xray in early 2015 shows extensive bilateral pulmonary shadowing with solid looking nodules superimposed on abnormal lung fields, contraction of his left lung with an elevated diaphragm and a large left upper lobe aspergilloma, displaying a classic air crescent. His CT scan from mid 2014 demonstrates a large aspergilloma in a cavity on the left, with marked pleural thickening around it, which is partially ‘calcified’ towards its base. Inferiorly on other images,remarkable pleural thickening and fibrotic irregular and spiculated nodules are seen, most partially calcified.
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